A sophisticated but accessible fusion of theory and critical popular culture of Leonard Cohen¿s mystical songbook in relation to post-secular thinking and Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. This volume presents a unique inter-disciplinary approach to Jewish philosophy and literary studies that will touch diverse audiences and readership.

Acknowledgements

Preface: Shaul Magid

Chapter 1: Prelude: New Skin for Post-Secular Philosophy of Circum/fession

Chapter 2: On Exile As Redemption in (Canadian) Jewish Mysticism

Chapter 3: From Darkness, A Love of All This: Seeking Sacred in Post-Secular Song

Chapter 4: Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Objective Spirit & Non-Dual Reality

Chapter 5: A Question of Pure Consciousness in the Priestly Blessing of Love

Chapter 6: Amen to American Agnosticism

Chapter 7: Nothing as Whole as a Broken Middle Matzah

Chapter 8: Falling with Our Angels, So Human

Chapter 9: ¿An Appetite for Something Like Religion¿: Unbinding the Binding of Isaac, Jesus Christ & Joan of Arc through Zen

Chapter 10: Standing Where There Used to Be a Street: 9/11 Post-Secularism & Sacred Song

Chapter 11: Never Mind this Neuzeit, Here¿s Kaddish: Between the Nameless & the Name

Chapter 12: Coda: A Philosophy of Post-Secular Song in Light of Piyyut as a Cultural Lens

Postface: Elliot R. Wolfson

Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) is rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom, San Francisco. His latest books dedicated to exploring Jewish philosophy in different contexts: Mystical Vertigo: Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide (Academic Studies Press, 2013) and A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought (Continuum, 2011) recently translated into Hebrew (Resling Press, 2015).